How the Americana Association Decided Show Must Go On With Live Awards, Virtual Music Conference

global pandemic, civil unrest and systemic racism coming to a head in countries all over the world, Bob Marley's family is coming together to try to do their part to help.

Billboard. “But this was a day where it all came...”Bearden voice trails off, and bandmate Savana Santos, sitting next to her at a Nashville coffee shop, quickly jumps in on the Zoom call.

Chris Willman Music WriterIn a televised live appearance on “The Grand Ole Opry” Saturday night, Nashville-based singer-songwriter Margo Price offered an unexpected bit of advocacy between songs, name-checking the group formerly known as Lady Antebellum before suggesting that the show should book Anita White, whom she called “the real Lady A.”Price made the suggestion immediately after performing a cover of “Skip a Rope,” a No.

The Toronto Film Festival on Friday opened registration and shared details for its first-ever virtual industry conference. TIFF's online plans include industry conference sessions, networking events and digital showcases of film titles by national cinema agencies.

Dua Lipa is back with a new visual for her latest single, “Hallucinate”!

Ellise Shafer editorFor Jackie McGuire, CEO and founder of production company Rave Family, music has always felt like more than a hobby.

Grammy-nominated guitarist Tommy Emmanuel has announced two live stream concerts in support of independent concert venues. On Aug. 15 and 29, Emmanuel will perform from live from Tunesmith Studio outside of Nashville with all proceeds benefitting The Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia and The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano, California respectively.

Brian Mansfield “American Idol” finalist and contemporary Christian singer Chris Sligh has COVID-19 and has developed pneumonia. Sligh, who finished tenth on the 2007 season of “Idol,” shared a picture of himself in a Nashville-area healthcare facility on Instagram late Monday, but was back at home Tuesday night.Sligh began exhibiting symptoms in late June that worsened over the weekend.

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Ellise Shafer editorAs the coronavirus pandemic triggered bans on large gatherings across the U.S., independent music and comedy venues were among the first to shut down.

Chris Morris Music ReporterSinger, songwriter and instrumentalist Charlie Daniels, whose fusion of traditional country and Southern rock made him a popular cross-genre artist during the ‘70s and ‘80s, died Monday of a hemorrhagic stroke in Hermitage, Tenn.

The morning after a night of protest in downtown Nashville, Matt Stell snuck into the Fleet Street Pub in the city’s Printer’s Alley, occupying the space for 12 hours as he portrayed 13 different characters for the video to “If I Was a Bar.”

Matt Signore will be leaving the company at the end of the year, according to an internal memo sent by WMN chairman/CEO John Esposito today (June 30) that was obtained by Billboard.Signore has spent 15 years at the Warner Music Group in different capacities, and had been COO at Warner Nashville since January 2017. He first joined the major from Island Def Jam in 2005, as chief financial officer of Warner’s artist and label services division WEA.

A posthumous live album from the Man in Black is on the way, courtesy of Jack White’s Third Man Records.

cases of COVID-19. After he posted a video on his Instagram Story showing of hundreds of people singing along to his recent hit "Eyes On You," captioning it "We back" and adding a smiley face sunglasses emoji, fans, peers and other bold-faced Nashville names including Kelsea Ballerini, Bobby Bones, Maren Morris and Mickey Guyton publicly criticized Chase and the venue, the Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Petros, Tennessee, which is a former prison-turned-event center."Imagine being

Killing Eve star Jodie Comer and Derry Girls‘ Nicola Coughlan are set to read letters sent between Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf as part of a new virtual Pride festival.The pair have joined the extensive lineup for Pride Inside, an online festival set up by Amnesty International, UK Black Pride, ParaPride, Gendered Intelligence and Stonewall.

Grammy and CMA Award-winning songwriter Hillary Lindsey has signed an exclusive, worldwide co-publishing deal with Concord Music Publishing.

Calling it quits after eight months of marriage…

Black lives matter.